Cynthia Brennan, Pharm.D., m.h.a., FaShP, is retired; at the time of writing she was Director of Clinical Excellence, University of Washington (UW) Medicine Pharmacy Services, and Clinical Professor, School of Pharmacy, UW, Seattle. Kim Donnelly, B.S.Pharm., is Director of Operations, Inpatient Pharmacy, UW Medical Center, Seattle, and Affiliate Associate Professor, School of Pharmacy, UW. ShaB...

1 Department of Pharmacognosy and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, Taibah University, Al Madinah Al Munawarah 30078, Saudi Arabia 2 Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Assiut University, Assiut 71526, Egypt 3 Department of Natural Products and Alternative Medicine, Faculty of Pharmacy, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, 21589, Saudi Arabia 4 Department of Pharmacogno...

A s current and former directors of pharmacy with a combined total of over 140 years of experience in key pharmacy administrative roles, we have over the years shared many hours of informal discussions about the pharmacy profession. We have networked and traded stories about our hospital pharmacy departments, celebrating large and small initiatives that succeeded and learning from those that fa...

1 Gazi University, Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmacognosy, 06330 Ankara, TURKEY, 2 Gazi University, Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmacology, 06330 Ankara, TURKEY, 3 Ankara University, Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmaceutical Botany, 06100 Ankara, TURKEY, 4 Anadolu University, Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmacognosy, 26470 Eskişehir, TURKEY, 5 Yeditepe Univers...

The aim of this study was to provide a clinical pharmacy education program at Masih Daneshvari hospital, a University affiliated hospital, located in Tehran, Iran. For this purpose, the most common pharmacist involved interventions and aspects of potential fields for pharmacy students and residents education was firstly identified. Clinical pharmacy interventions and drug information forms wer...

The present corpus-based lexical study reports the development of a Pharmacy Academic Word List (PAWL); a list of the most frequent words from a corpus of 3,458,445 tokens made up of 800 most recent pharmacy texts including research articles, review articles, and short communications in four sub-disciplines of pharmacy. WordSmith (Scott, 2017) and AntWordProfiler (Anthony, 2014) were used to sc...

Although community pharmacies have been the mainstay for drug distribution in the USA, plan members are encouraged to use mail-order pharmacies as a cost-containment strategy. Both channels differ with respect to reimbursement rates, utilization, and costs. We evaluated the differences in reimbursement rates and in ingredient costs between the two dispensing channels. We used pharmacy claims fr...

Abstract Introduction Pharmacy contractors are required to log patient safety events and report them a national system, currently, the Learn From Patient Safety Events (LFPSE) system.1 Professional guidance recommends that pharmacy staff record, learn, discuss, act analyse both dispensing errors near misses.2 The National Association defines miss as “patient incident is detected before or patie...

background: nowadays pharmaceutical care departments located in hospitals are amongst the important pillars of the healthcare system. the aim of this study was to evaluate designing features and equipments of hospital drugstores affiliated with isfahan university of medical sciences. methods: in this cross-sectional study a self-defined and validated questionnaire was used which included all th...

virtual learning is a type of electronic learning system based on the web. it models traditional in- person learning by providing virtual access to classes, tests, homework, feedbacks and etc. students and teachers can interact through chat rooms or other virtual environments. web 2.0 services are usually used for this method. internet audio-visual tools, multimedia systems, a disco cd-roms, vi...